[Javascript] Reading cookies

[Rodney Myers]

James,

Getting the cookie value will give you a string such as you have
reproduced.
Then it is a matter of extracting the part you need.

In this the main tools would be :

  the string.split(X) method
 - which you may know can split not just on single chars 
   such as space or semi-colon but also on strings.

  the bigString.indexOf(X) method 
 - which can return the position of small string X in bigString 

So if bigString had the total value

var temp = bigString.split("UB-NICKNAME")

would create an array in which temp[1] contained all the rest of
bigString from (in your example) 'James' onwards.


var pos=bigString.indexOf("UB-NICKNAME")
would give you the position in bigString of the start of "UB-NICKNAME"
By adding the length of "UB-NICKNAME" plus any line break chars you may
have used (email makes long strings difficult to interpret literally)
you can find the start of the value you need.

Then indexOf may be used again to find a char/string that will signal
the end of the UB-NICKNAME. If there is no such string or char, then you
may have to replan so that there is.

hth

Rodney

James Fox wrote:
> 
> mmmm cookies..
> 
> Okay, I have set up 'UltraBoard' which uses cookies to store the
> user's username.
> 
> I want to read the cookie which UltraBoard leaves and display the
> users' nickname on the front of my site. How do I go about this?
> The cookie is called 'UB/' and part of the cookie looks like this:
> (I want the part which says 'UB-NICKNAME')
> Thanks very much.
> 
> EMAILjames%40lymm.netcgi.www.lymm.net/cgi-
> bin/www.lymm.net/UB/0311876864029418535254969000029412500
> *
> UB-NICKNAME
> James
> cgi.www.lymm.net/cgi-
> bin/www.lymm.net/UB/
> 0
> 3118768640
> 29418535
> 2549590000
> 2
> 9412500
> *
> UB-
> 
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Rodney Myers
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